Authorities have identified the 39-year-old man who died following a Friday night shooting in West Scranton.<\/p>\n
Lackawanna County Coroner Timothy Rowland identified the victim as Clinton Thornton-Hill, who was found unconscious on the 300 block of North Hyde Park Avenue. Thornton-Hill was transported to Geisinger Community Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
The coroner determined that Thornton-Hill died as the result of a single gunshot wound to his abdomen and ruled the manner of death a homicide. Local law enforcement and the coroner’s office are continuing their active investigation into the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have identified the 39-year-old man who died following a Friday night shooting in West Scranton. Lackawanna County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[21942,111,3907,1021,201,7510,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-248524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-death","tag-gunshot-wound","tag-investigation","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-nepa","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}